Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass., nor in his more recent Manhattan period did the five-day week enter into calculations on how long a job would take...
...attack?a page advertisement signed by National Food Products Protective Committee, consisted of an "open letter" headed: "Shall the air be given over to destructive propaganda?"? This letter was addressed to the Advisory Council of National Broadcasting Co. Since the Advisory Council numbers among its members a long list of men and women whose U. S. citizenship is a source of U. S. pride, and since the Lucky Strike campaign has been widely, conspicuously flayed, the Open Letter was essentially a sharp contrast between the admittedly high character of the Council and the allegedly low character of the campaign...
...brain to be crocked in glass at Cornell University,* his skeleton to be mounted and displayed at Washington, his vital organs to be disposed here and there -such was the will of Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, 85, Army autoptician, who died at Washington last week of pneumonia. During his long medical career he had performed 1,500 post mortems including those of President James Abram Garfield and his assassin Charles Jules Guiteau; and Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or incineration and had rather after...
Boyds. "Starring William Boyd" & "Featuring William Boyd" appeared simultaneously last week on the posters of United Artists and Pathé. Both posters showed pictures of a manly, straight-featured William Boyd-the Pathé Boyd a film actor of long standing, the United Artists Boyd a new recruit from the legitimate stage (What Price Glory}. Though each William Boyd had baptismal right to his name, Pathé prepared to sue United Artists...
There are four tableaux. On one side of the stage a bride is being prepared for her wedding night, her long hair is being combed. On the other one sees the anointing of the groom. Then comes the blessing and departure of the bride, to the lamenting of her parents. Finally the nuptial celebration, described this way by Conductor Stokowski for the League of Composers' program note...